VARIETIES
Cultivars recommended in different parts of India
Early Varieties (ready in 70-80 days
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Main season varieties (ready in 90-95 days)
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Late Varieties
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Kufri Ashoka
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Kufri Jyoti
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K. Jeevan
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K. Chandermukhi
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K. Sutlej
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K. Neelamani
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Kufri Jawahar
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K. Pukhraj, K. Megha
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K. Khasigaro
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Kufri Lauvkar
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K. Badshah, Kufri Anand
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K. Naveen
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Kufri Bahar, K. Sadabahar
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K. Deva, K. Sherpa, K. Swarna
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Red coloured: Kufri Sindhuri, Kufri Lalima
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FOR PROCESSING: Kufri Chipsona-1, Kufri Chipsona-2, Kufri Chipsona-3, Kufri Himsona.Descriptions of the important commercial varieties of potatoes are given here under:
Kufri Chandramukhi
- Early maturing (matures 10 days earlier than Up to Date) with attractive oval white tubers. It degenerates slowly and keeps well in storage.
- It gives high yields (higher than Up to Date), cooks easily and does not degenerate rapidly in the plains.
Kufri Chamatkar:
- An early bulking variety (110-120 days) with uniform sized, shining and smooth tubers suitable for cultivation in Punjab, Haryana, UP and MP
Kufri Jyoti
- Tubers of this variety are large oval, flattened, white skinned, eyes flat and flesh dull white.
- A widely adaptable, possessing a high degree of field resistance to late blight disease in the foliage and also a good degree of tuber resistance to the same disease.
- It is also resistant to the wart and moderately resistant to Cercospora leaf spot.
- It is recommended for Himachal Pradesh and Kumaun hills of Uttarakhand.
Kufri Lalima
- Tubers are medium in size, shape round, skin red, eyes medium deep and white flesh.
- It is medium maturing and moderate resistant to early bright.
- It is suitable for cultivation in north Indian plains and is replacing ‘Kufri Sindhuri’.
Kufri Neelmani
- Suited for the Nilgiri hills in the South.
- It has given 100 per cent more yield than the variety ‘Great Scot’, which has long been popular in the Nilgiri hills.
Kufri Red
- It is the selection from Darjeeling Red Round isolated and developed by the Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla.
- It is superior in yield and quality of tubers to Darjeeling Red Round.
- It has substituted Darjeeling Red Round on a large scale in U P, Bihar and Punjab.
Kufri Safed
- A new improved disease free clone of Phulwa and Kufri Safed
- The clone resembles Phulwa in most of its morphological features except that the leaves are slightly bigger.
- This variety yields on an average 25 per cent more than Phulwa.
Kufri Sindhuri
- Medium maturing (31/2 to 41/2 months) with round, light red and medium sized tubers.
- It is suitable for cultivation as a main crop variety in the plains, as replacements to Kufri Red and other late varieties.
Kufri Swarna:
- A medium maturing (130-135 days in summer and 100-110 days in autumn) variety producing tall, erect, compact and vigorous plants with white flowers.
- The tubers are medium-large, white, round-oval with fleet eyes and unlike Kufri Jyoti do not show cracking.
- The variety is moderately resistant to late blight and cyst nematodes and heavy yielder (average yields 25-30 t/ha). Suitable for cultivation in South Indian hills.
Kufri Giriraj:
- A medium maturing (130-135 days) variety, tubers are medium to large, white, oval, with fleet eyes.
- The variety is field resistant to late blight with average yields of 25-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian hills.
Kufri Chipsona-1:
- A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing medium to tall, semi-erect, compact, vigorous plants with white flowers.
- The tubers are medium to large, oval, white with fleet eyes.
- The variety possesses resistance to late blight and is suitable both for preparation of chips and French fries and on an average yields 35-38 t/ha.
- Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.
Kufri Chipsona-2:
- A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing medium tall, erect, open, plants with white flowers.
- The tubers are medium to large, round, white with fleet eyes.
- The variety possesses resistance to late blight and tolerance to frost, suitable for preparation of chips and on an average yields 32-35 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.
Kufri Chipsona-3:
- A medium maturing (100-110 days) variety producing tall, erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with white flowers.
- The tubers are round-oval, medium and white with fleet eyes.
- The variety possesses field resistance to late blight, moderate field resistance to Phoma, early blight, mosaic, severe mosaic and leaf roll.
- The tubers have high dry matter, negligible glycol-alkaloid content and comparatively good protein content, suitable for preparation of chips and on an average yields 32-35 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains.
Kufri Surya:
- An early maturing (75-90 days) variety producing medium tall, erect, semi-compact, vigorous plants having light red purple flowers with shy flowering.
- Tubers are medium-large, oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
- It is tolerant to heat and can be grown in areas having night temperature above 20ºC and
- It is resistant to hopper and do possesses some resistance to mite and late blight.
- Average yield is 35-40 t/ha and suitable for cultivation in North Indian plains and Peninsular India.
Kufri Himalini:
- A medium maturing (110-120 days) variety producing medium-tall, semi-erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with light purple flowers.
- The tubers are medium, oval-oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
- The variety possesses field resistance to late blight in foliage and moderate resistance in tubers.
- The variety on an average yields 27-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North western and north eastern hills.
Kufri Himsona:
- A medium maturing (120-140 days) variety producing open, medium, thin stems with flowers primarily purple/ intense purple with white tip on both sides.
- The tubers are medium, round-oval, white, smooth, shallow eyes with cream pale yellow flesh.
- It is the 1st high dry matter, low reducing sugar and late blight resistant potato variety for HP hills.
- The variety on an average yields 20-25 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in North Indian hills.
Kufri Girdhari:
- A medium maturing (110-120 days) variety producing medium-tall, semi-erect, vigorous, semi-compact plants with white flowers.
- The tubers are medium, oval-oblong, white, smooth, shallow eyes with pale yellow flesh.
- The variety possesses high level of field resistance to late blight in foliage and tubers.
- The variety on an average yields 27-30 t/ha. Suitable for cultivation in hills.
TPS Population 92-PT- 27:
- Developed by Central Potato Research Institute in 2007. True potato seeds (botanical seeds) are produced through conventional hybridization.
- Uniform and high yielding TPS population with resistance to late blight.
- Both parents flower under short days in the plains.
- Suitable for cultivation in eastern region.
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